Archive for July, 2005
Shaukat to quit as PM
Well rumors have been circulating quite seriously for the past few months of a pending resignation of Shaukat Aziz from the corridors of Islamabad and soon to move into Washington as the Managing Director World Bank. It would indeed be sad day for Pakistan to loose such a brilliant economist another casualty to our [...]
EU Creating a Blood Substitute
The European Union is in a 3-year research grant to create the perfect alternative for human blood. Research has gone to an extent that they have found the perfect material that can be sterilized hence rendering it disease-free and is also able to traverse the smallest of blood capillaries. This fluorinated hydrocarbon is [...]
Digg-nation
A very recent fad that is creeping across the net is the digg.com trend. Designed by an energetic bunch of geeks this site is a constantly evolving web page/blog. Stories are submitted by registered users and initially remain on-hold until enough members deem it interesting to be featured on the main page. [...]
Imran Khan speaks out
Recently Imran Khan wrote an article which was published on SA Tribune. I quote you a very interesting point that he mentioned amongst other notable items also discussed.
…rather than trying to understand why 9/11 had happened, Bush and his colleagues took refuge in such inane expressions as “they hate our freedom, our way of [...]
Shoot to Kill Innocents
At first it was spectacular news when the London police systematically cornered a would-be terrorist running from them at Stockwell Station and then convientely placed five shots into the person to kill him. Soon the Police was bold enough to admit (I give them due credit for coming out clean) that this Brazilian national [...]
Cricket in the UK
Firstly I am again saddened by another series of attacks in London, despite all the preventive measure taken by the UK police a few days back. I am simply stunned at the gutts of these terrorist who are adamant at creating unrest. I again condemn this sad event and offer moral support hoping [...]
New Hotmail to be Released
Rumors have it that Hotmail is gearing towards a makeover where they are planning to upgrade accounts to the 2GB limit. Microsoft has sent out invites to a selected few to try this new service and is supposed to go live in approximately, though no release date has yet been announced for the general [...]
Google looses Gmail Trademark
Well its now official Google has lost the trademark battle for the word Gmail, it is offically now owned by Cencourse a company running out of Florida. Cenourse filed the trademark application on 9th April 2004 while Google was 3 days late coming in on the 12th April 2004 and hence Cencourse is technically [...]
Attack Mecca !!
A US Congressman while giving an interview to a radio station (WFLA-AM Orlando, FL) advised the US Military to “Take Out” Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons.
Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican Tom Tancredo how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities [...]
British born Pakistanis
Ain’t it ironic that the word Pakistan seems to creep into every terrorist incident worldwide? In the recent London Bombings three out of the four terrorists are British nationals of Pakistani descent: Shehzad Tanweer, Mohammed Sadique Khan and Hasib Hussain have been accused to be the primary suspects in the on going investigation. [...]
London Under Attack 7/7
7/7/05 is now also another sad day going down into the history books. London is now offically another target for terrorists and sadly suffered a huge attack with numerous bombs going off in various localities throughout central London. The minute I heard the sad news, my heart skipped a beat, and it [...]
TWiT
Technology Junkies!!! Tune into the weekly podcast of This Week in Tech, an amazing hour long broadcast which is available for download. The hosts are (ex-TechTV Screensavers hosts), Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton and Kevin Rose, if you have ever watched TechTV you must already miss them and their amazing ScreenSavers show on [...]
Knocked Out
We have heard of electrical outages and have often heard of no water supply, but this week we add another item to the list, NO INTERNET ACCESS. On Monday afternoon the SMW-2 cable suffered a critical power loss about 30 odd miles from Karachi, to make matters worse PTCL sadly tried to save up [...]
